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[Daniel van Vugt <daniel.van.vugt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I believe Xvfb is superseded by the "dummy" X driver. And there's a 
program called Xdummy that simplifies loading it.


On 14/01/13 15:21, Marco Trevisan wrote:
> Il giorno lun, 14/01/2013 alle 16.10 -0500, Stephen M. Webb ha scritto:
> > On 01/14/2013 03:55 PM, Daniel van Vugt wrote:
> > > Can we try to make test case execution automated and a requirement for Jenkins approval? Sounds like
> > > it's just a matter of running under a dummy (headless) X server.
> >
> > I would very much like to see this happen.  Does anyone know explicitly what is blocking this?
>
> I was just checking it, but it seems we can't use Xvfb, due to:
>
> 	Xlib:  extension "XFree86-VidModeExtension" missing on display ":100".
> 	Xlib:  extension "XINERAMA" missing on display ":100".
> 	Xlib:  extension "XFree86-VidModeExtension" missing on display ":100".
>
> And, it's not possible to enable them, since they are not available in
> Xvfb [1] at all.
>
> [1] http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/2009-June/045832.html